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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26
THE GERMS OF DISEASE.
Lurking in the Cutters and Rut'
of City Streets.

"If one member is sick" writes St.
Paul, 1.-THE whole body suffereth." Ar
istoratic and heightened quarters can
not insure themselves from the fatal
consequences attending an environ
ment of filth and squalor, of offal and
garbage. Luxuriously appointed par
Iors, plate glass windows and long
prayers will not bring an immunity to
typhoid pneumonia, diphtheria, cere-
bro-spinal meningitis, typhus fever,
Asiatic cholera or the Russi N plague.
When reeking cesspools surround one on
every size it is vain thing for even the
rigidly righteous to eXclaim, Soul take
thine ease.' Ten righteous men might
have saved Sodom from the fire and
birthstone visitation, but two clean
avenues aud few well swept streets
will not secure q like immunity from
the miasm engendered by the sun 8
RAYS from the all pervading filth. The
germs OF disease Turk in every gutter
| hide in every street hidden. Even when
| the tons of garbage is removed the ruts
and joints of the pavement will be
saturated with q putrescent organic
mire, which will yield constant supply
of noxious miasma.
In hot and dry weather these nauseat-
! ing deposits pass into the atmosphere in
the form Of leadly vapors and lethal
organisms, which not only poison our
! lungs, but SOW tue seeds of disease and
death. Any one who will carefully OBJ
serve the ground when the pavement
is removed for any purpose will per
ceiye black layer OF earth saturated
with sulphuretted hydrogen, which
bears eloquent witness to the infection
of the sub-soil by the sOakage OF these
regularly recurring winter cOntsmlns-
lions.
vAPoRs FROM THE CUTTERS.
Vapors, still more noxiOus, OF course
than those from the road-bed, rise from
the cutters, the sub-soil of which is i'm
pregnated with the most deadly or
ganic poison. And over these gutter
thousands of the children Of the poo
play during the summer and inhale tn
mlasm into their tender lungs. Tn
consequences are recorded In eyer,
years mortality report. Eighty pc
cent. Of the infant population OF New
York City live in tenement houses, ant
according 10 tQo report u Guo Ola
board Of charities, One-half OF them d
rot survive their second birthday.
An elderly medical gentleman, in con
versation with the writer recently re
marked: "Diphtheria, typhoid pneu
monia and typhus fever are diseases Q
comparatively recent development il
New York. They are the direct resul
of dirty streets and Astounding filth
When 1 began practice in New York
after attending the hospitals in Pari
and London, ten years passed-aye
more than ten years without my see
ing case of fever. Except the i'm
ported ship fever there were no feve
cases of any kind in this then health!
city. One day Dr.. Griscom astonishet
the profession by inviting them to cal
and see four cases of this character II
the New York hospital, on Broadway
then under his uperintendence. To
day these are tina principal diseases
and the most fatal diseases the practic-
ing physician has TO combat. "-B. T
Valentine in Herald Of Health.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26
100 Doses

One Dollar. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the only
medicine of which this can be truly said (;
and it is an Unanswerable argument as to
the strength and positive economy Of this
great medicine. Hoods Sarsaparilla is made
of roots, herbs, barks, etc, long and faYorably
known for their power in purifying the blood !;
and in combination. proportion, and process,
Hoods Sarsaparilla is peculiar to itself.
"FOr ecO1Oanys and comfort we use Hoods
Sarsaparilla." MRS. C. BREWSTER, Buffalo.
floods Sarsaparilla takes less time and
quantity to show its effect than any other
preparation I ever heard of. would not be
without it in the house." MRS. c. A. NJ.
HUBBARD, North Chill, n. Y. 100 Doses
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26

THAT WAS very graceful little act of
Mrs Cleveland to go all the way from
Washington to open home for work
ing women at Bridgeport. And it was
none the less kindly act because it was
good politics, too.-NeW York CONNER
ciak IaLetfiSer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26
lis pelicacz Of Flavor

And the efficacy of its action have rem
dered the famous California liquid fruit
remedy, Syrup of Figs, immensely pop
uIar. 1t cleanseS and tones up the
clogged and feverish system, ana dis
pels Headaches, Colds, and Fevers.
Sample bottles free, and large bottles
for sale by A. G. Smith & Co., agents,
Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26
Rnoklen,s Arnica sa1ve.

The Best Save in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands
ChIblains, Corns. and all Skin Erup-
tons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price % cents d boz. For sale by z. G.
M, [. Co,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26

We ARE glad to note that the asperi-
ties of the newspaper war in New York
are abaung. Liar, thief, JUDAS, y
"Ananias," ana simple pet names are
not Ised more than three or four times
a day noW.-Boston Globe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26
One Dollar

Hoods Sarsaparilla cures scrofula, salt
rheum, all humors, boils, pimples, general de-
bility, dyspepsia, biliouSness, sick headache.
catarrh, rheumatism, kidney and liver COM
plants, and all affections caused by impure
blood or low condition Of the system. Try it.
Il was severely afflicted with scrofula. and
= over year had two running sores on my
Jcck. took five bottles of Hoods Sarsapa-
riila, and consider myself entirely cured"
Q. Z. LovEJOY, Lowell, Mass.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla did me An immense
amount OF good. My whole system has been
built up and strengthened, my digestion i'm
proved, and my head relieved Of the bad feel
ing. I consider it the best medicine have
ever used, and should not knew how to do
without it." MARY L. PEHLR, Salem, Mass.
Hoods SarsapaFilIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for IS. Made
only by c. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar.
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Ee.;3a 10 Merchants, Manufacturers, Etc,
Thomas slight

removed his Paper Box Factory to % s,
WI EMPLE STREET. opposite Valley
Hons. al kinds of Paper, Dry Goods aud
shoe Boxes of Thin Lumber made 10 order
cheaper tn n everl Agent for Steve's Fold
ing Paper Boxes, et"., etc.
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Max. temp, A.: min. temp. 81.

VIM, A. KORTs, Corporal,
Signal Corps, U.S.A.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26
MIsCRLLANEoUs.
SCRATCHED 28 YEARS.
sca'S, Itching Skin Disease with
Endless Suffering Cured ~
C~tiourR Remedies.

II had known of the CUTICTRA REHE-
DIRsftWenty-eight years ago it would have
saved me 500 % two hundred dOllaTs) and
an immense amount of suffering. Ny dis.
ease (Psoriasis) commenced on my head in
a spot not larger than cent II spread rap
idly all over ny body and got under my
nails. The scales would drop off of me all
the time, and my suffering was endless, and
without relief One thousand dollsrs would
not tempt me TO have this disease over again.
1 am poor man, but feel rich to bereh we'd
of what some of the doctors said was
leprosy, some ring-WOrm, psoriasis, etc.
took ....... and ....... SaIsspari las over
one year and a half, but no cure l went TO
two or three doctors and no cure. l cannot
praise the CUTCURA REMEDIES too much.
They have made my skin as clear and Bee
from scales as baby's. All l used OF them
was three boxes of CUTICURA, and three
bottles of CUTICURA REsoLVENT, and two
cakes of CUTICURA SOAP If you had been
here and said you would have cured NE for
$4,000 you would have had the money !
looked like the picture in your book ct
Psoriasis tpicture number two, How to
Cure Skin Diseases, but now am as clear
as any person ever was. Through force OF
habit l rub my hands over my arms and
| legs 20 scratch once in a while, but 70 no
| purpose. l an all wei. l scrs tched for
| twenty. eight years, and it got to be kind of
! second nature to me. l thank you thOus-
and times. Anything more that you want
! TO know write me, or any one who reads
this may write to me and will answer i
DENNIS DOWNING,
III. To-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26
WATERBURY, VT Jan. 10th, 1857

Psoriasis, Eczema, letter, RingwoYn,
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Itching, Burning, Scaly, Pimply humors Of
the Skin and scslp and Blood, with Loss Of
Hair, are ositively cured by CUTICURA, the
great Skin Cure, and CUTICURA SOAP, an eX-
quisite Skin Beautifier, externany, and CgTI-
CURA REsOLvENT, the new Blood Purifier,
internally, when physicians and all other
remedies fail
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26

Sold everywhere. Price: CUTIOUBh, 80
cents; SOAP, Is cents; kEsoLYENT, 81 ~
Prepared by the Potter Drug and Chemical
Company, Boston, Mass.
eases" "a pages, 50 Illustrations and 100
testiH onials,
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
Singular Cure tor Neuralgia,

The following story is told as coming
from Senator German himself, and
giving his experience in securing a
cure for neuralgia: For many years
he has been a sufferer from regular at
tacks Of neuralgia. On some occasions
be has been confined to his home a
day or two, so intense was the pain.
An old lady friend once called upon
him while he was suffering from one
OF his attacks. She displayed so M IN
sympathy that she almost forgot to
name the request she had to make-but
she did not. Upon learning that the
she volunteered to give linn an infalli-
bic remedy, provided he would promise
not to laugh az her or accuse her Of
being a believer in COMPUTATIONS, spells,
etc. The senator, in q g00d-natured
way informed her that he was under
treatment from IN eminent physician.
who sometimes afforded him temporary
relief. The Old lady finally prevailed
upon the Senator 10 give her remedy a
fair trial. whefeupGu she suggested
that he shouid Get AN ordinary nutmeg,
such as is used i'll cooking, drill a hole
through it, attach it toa piece of string,
or ribbon and wear it around his neck
continually. The Senator, while suffer
ing II day. determined TO give the
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19

A traveller gives a pretty description
Of the graceful egg dauce which Was
performed for his amusement il the
Court Of Bh0pal, India. 1t shows that
orr sword dancers and our Young ladies'
Of the ballet are not quite up to the
standard of the Bhopai girl. lie tells
that a slender girl, arrayed in an am
broldered bodice and short skirts like
those worn 10y the peasant women IN
this part of India, came forward very
tascinatingly TO HIM with wreathed
smiles and dainty steps, and also IN
steps that We're very sweetly modelled.
"She seemed % me as if she wanted me
to buy her basket Of eggs along with
herself, and that tie eggs were real
eggs. She did not dance on them,
however. She wore on her head a
large wheel Of wlckerwork, and around
tins, at equal distances, were placed
threads with sllp-kn0ts at the ends,
In each knot n glass bead 70 keep i
from closing. Tie music begins. II is
a quick, jerking movement, rather
monotonous, ami the dancer spins
around III time with the measure. which
grows faster and faster. AS she turns
sine seizes an egg from the basket,
which is held on her left arm and
rapidly inserts il in one of the knots.
Her circular motion causes the threads
to stretch out like the spokes Of a
wheel. She keeps on doing this till
every knot has It's egg and her head is
surrounded by a sort Of aureole. When
she has succeeded in placing all the
eggs she spins around so fast that her
features can hardly be seen. a false
step aud Humpty Dumpty would have
had a fall indeed. She has now the
most dainty and most difficult part of
her dance to execute, for the dance is
not done till every egg is taken from
its thread and lad safely back in the
empty basket. One by one the Indian
girl accomplishes this, never crushing
q she'll or ~displacing 4 single egg. When
all are restored she stops her dizzy
whirl, curtSics with grace and offers
her basket to the lookers-on who often
break the eggs TO prove that no juggl-
Ell trick has been used to change them.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
Origin OF OpiHm.

According to the Bcngali legend,
there once lived on the banks Of the
holy river Ganga, a riShi, or sage, in
whose hut, made Of palm leaves, there
was a mouse, which became a favorite
with the seer, and was endowed by
him with the gift Of speech. After
awhile the mouse having been fright
ened by 2 cat, at its earnest solicita-
ton was changed by the rishi into 4
cat; then, alarmed by dogs, into a dog;
then into an ape, then into a bear, then
into an elephant, and then, being still
discontinued, into a beautiful maiden,
to whom the sage gave the name of
"Postomania," or the poppy seed
lady"
One day, while she was tending her
plants the king approached the rishi's
cottage, and was invited TO rest and
refresh himself by Iostomania, who
offered him some delicious fruit. The
king, however, struck by the girls
beauty, refused TO eat until she had
told him her parentage. Postomania
TO deceive the King, tod him she was a
princess whom the riahi had found in
the woods and had brought up as his
child.
The upshot wGs that the king maze
love TO the girl and they were married
by the holy sage. She was treated as
the favorite queen, and was very happy:
but one day white standing by a well,
she turned giddy and fell INTO the water
and died. The riShi then appeared
before the king and begged him o to
give way to consuming grief, az the
late queen was not Of royal blood.
"She was a mouse" he said, land by
her own wish | changed her success
slyely into a cat, a dog, an ape, a
bear, an elephant, and a loving girl.
Let her body remain in the well; fill
up the well with earth. Out of her
flesh and bones will grow a tree, which
shall be called after her, 'Posto,' that
is the poppy tree From this tree
will be obtained a drug called opium
which will be swallowed or smoked till
the end of time. The opium swallower
or smoker will have n quality of each
of the animals to which Postomania
was transformed. He will be mis-.
c%hievous, like a mouse; fond of milk,
like a cat; filthy, like al ape; quarrel
some, like a dog; savage, like a bear;
and high-tempered, like a queen"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
THE BALLET GIRLS.
:. .al becomco OF the Agile Young women
NLo Dance Upon the stage.

,.Aal Becomco OF the Agile Young women
NEo Dance Upon the stage.
"What becomes Of the ballet girls :"
The old ballet master repeated tho
question TO himself muSingly. "Well,'
he at length answered, 1.-The ballet girl
is not SO very unlike other girls who
must work for a living as most people
imagine. She has more temptations,
is usually of a lively nature and not
averse TO a lark, but she generally ends
by marrying. AS a rule, she marries
someone connected with the theatre
or someone in her own class Of life
whom she meets at her home. 0bvi-
ously the ball It girls parents are
almost always poor people, it is not
often that girls of well.to.do parents
run away TO join the ballet, and when
they do they are in nearly every case
soon captured and taken home. When
the ballet girl marries "A mechanic, or a
saloon-keeper, or 4 stage hand, it is the
exception when she does not make a
good and domestic wife. Some ballet
girls have made a~ristocratic marriages,
but most Of these girls were premieres.
They have usually gotten along well
with their husbands and it has hap
pened that a fast youth has reformed
after taking a ballerina for his wife.
When a ballet girl marries an actor,
that is as it may turn out, just a. if the
actor married any other girl. There
are ballet girls who go to the bad, Of
course, but the experience Of the ballet
girl makes her shrewd and she Is not
easily humbugged. The premieres
hold themselves aloof aud with the
majority there is seldom even q sus-
picion of scandal. Many of the girls
are the chief support Of their families.
| have known ballet girls not only to
make their IS dresses but their SHOES
as Well. They do not regard their bust
as an immodest one. They begin ii so
early that they think nothing of their
short dresses. To be sure there are
girls who go on in scanty dresses for
reasons of their own which you can
understand, but / speak Of the great
majority"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
He Had Changed Much.

When Mr.. A. Usina left for New
York, a few weeks since, he purchased
a round trip ticket via the Charleston
line, but after getting to the metropolis
he took q notion to come back by rall
and disposed Of his ticket TO a scalper.
The scalper, in.order to make the things
work straight required Tony to cave
his business card, SO that it could be
given to whoever might purchase the
ticket. 1t was not long before a little,
short, red-headed man walked into the
scalper's and asked for a ticket to Pal
atka, when Tony's was sold him. The
fellow got along all right until after he
left Charleston. When he presented
his ticket to Purser Morgan, Of the
steamship City Of Monticello, who hap
pened to be an acquaintance Of Tony's,
that officer asked: els your name A.
Usina?" "Ies, Sir" replied the tour
list. "Where do you live?" asked the
purser. at Palatka." What do you
do there?" "Well, I'm in business
down there. Here's my card" at the
same time producing the card of our
we'll known crockery dealer, Purser
Morgan read it we and carefully eyed
the stranger, when Capt. Mckee hap
pened along, and on being Informed OF
the above conversation looked at the
little fellow, and said: well, Tony,
you must have had 'hades Of a time
in New York TO have shortened you up
about a foot, and to have your hair
turn from an ink b~lackness to a nery
rad
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
Animals that Look Like Men.

There's q big Newfoundland dog
that ~frequents the hall OF the Pioneer
Press building whose contitenance so
resembles that Of James q. Blaine that
it startles one. | once knew a Durham
cow that looked SO much like her
owner, an Episcopal clergyman, that
it became a matter of common COM
ment. There's now a little black-and-
tan dog at the st. James Hotel which
so closely resembles one of the proprie-
tors of that hotel that every guest stops,
gazes, and is amazed. There is also a
big mastiff in the city whose face
closely resembles that of a well-known
local politician Of Irish descent
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
Trayersins "A Lava Stream.

a writer III a California paper graphi-
cally describes a flow OF lava In Hawaii:
"An advancing lava flow makes
considerable ado as it goes on-especi-
ally If its line of advance is through
a jungle or forest. The noise accom-
panying its movement under these
circumstances resembles the roar of
the battlefield. The ears Of the per-
son who visits the scene are greeted
by the cracking of blazing foliage,
the Kissing Of hot air and steam, the
falling of trees, and the bursting Of
bombs, all commingled in one tumult.
Trayersing a lava stream while 1t Is
yet running may be compared to ira
versing a riyerin winter by walking on
the ice. A pair of thick shoes and
stockings are needed to protect them
from the heat, as on the ice to protect
them from the cold. Nent-holes, too,
will be ever amor encountered in the
solid crust covering the liquid stream,
down which the spectator can look and
behold the fiery river below; and occa-
sionally one will come across ~llre-falls,
which are usually seen without any
coyring of solid lava v them.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
kALAYS m NEW YORK. ~
Turtle Fi"hting is their Tavpr''n Amuse-
neAL-A Battle DeecFiaed.


Their amusements arc few and SIM
pie. The most remarkable of these is
turtle fighting. Two swapping turtles
are carefully selected and trained. The
best ior sporting purposes are those
that weigh from fifteen TO twenty
pounds apiece. Lighter ones are i'm
mature and not SO muscular. Heavier
ones are logy, slow, and less vindictive.
The training consists in teasing them
three times a day with a bamboo rod
and allowing them to hang from this
by the hour after they once take hold.
The only diet is raw meat and red
pepper, even water being tabooed.
The day before the fight the teeth and
jaws are examined, ov%eIhanded, fled,
and scraped, till they resemble knife
edges.
The fight is conducted in a small
ring not more than a yard III diameter.
The snappers are produced and
washed, and each tasted by the sec
onds of the other. This is done to pre-
vent cowitch or poisonous drugs being
placed upon the salient points, whence
it may enter the mouth. nose, and eyes
Of the opposite antagonist. They are
then irritated in the usual style with
a sharp rod until neatly frenzied, and
then placed in the center Of the ring.
There is neither wait nor running away.
Each snaps at the other simultane-
ously. The best hold is an oblique
hold. This enables the one that cat
ches 20 reach the cartOld artery and
the windpipe without being compelled
to bite through the massive carriages
Of the neck. Next to this is a straight
neck hold, in which the two jaws
strike against the top and bottom of
the neck. Below this again is the
cross hold, in which the jaws strike
against the two sides Of the neck.
Poorest Of all Is the leg hold. This is
regarded by all Oriental sports as the
acme of uninteliigence, because if both
the snappers take leg holds the fight is
heightened out Unfortunately. The
combat is 70 the death-one Of the tur-
ties always being killed, and frequently
both.
In a fight not long since in Park
street the larger of the two turtles
shot sideways, thrust his head under
that of the smaller and caught the lat
tiers right fore leg. In this position
the right one was impotent. 1t stood
still a moment, while through the
room, silent, though crowded with
Eastern sightseers, sounded the crun-
ching Of scaly skin, tendon. and bone.
Then the smaller one hobbled sideways
in until its head was clear, and then,
quick as thought, buried its jaws in an
oblique hold upon its adversary. Both
bodies remained motionless while the
razor-like jaws, were sinking deeper
into the others members. After a few
minutes, which seemed hours, the leg
came off, and, still held by the larger
snapper's head, fell upon the floor.
There was q pause in the crowd, who
expected q fresh attack on the smaller
reptile. Bat the eye of the larger
glazed and closed. 1t was dead. The
crowd dispersed in bad humor, for the
majority had Uagered heavily upon the
loser. .